Table 4.

Descriptive and reliability of primary variables of interest.

	American expatriates		Malays		Indians
Variable	M (SD)	α	M (SD)	α	M (SD)	α
Negative emotions	3.00 (1.45)	0.92	2.78 (1.38)	0.91	2.99 (1.44)	0.90
Symbolic threat	2.48 (0.98)	0.92	2.28 (1.01)	0.95	2.77 (1.13)	0.95
Realistic threat	2.50 (0.92)	0.89	2.24 (0.97)	0.95	2.90 (1.09)	0.93
Social media use	M = 3.46 SD = 1.57 Cronbach’s α = 0.89
Cognitive ability	M = 5.27 SD = 1.98 Cronbach’s α = 0.73